In politics today
Bhagwant Mann
AAP
Punjab Chief Minister since 2022 and AAP's only government outside Delhi. Free power and neighbourhood clinics with a hard federalist line on Chandigarh and river water — beside a police record that cleared the farm protest sites and a sacrilege law carrying life imprisonment.
Furthest from the middle on Federalism, toward States.
Where they stand
Bhagwant Mann on each of the seven scales, from one pole to the other.
Welfare
−7.5Expansive state provisionMinimal/targeted provisionMarkets
0.0State-led developmentMarket-led developmentRecognition
+1.0Formal equalityGroup remediesNation
+1.0PluralistMajoritarianAuthority
+5.5Civil libertiesStrong stateCulture
+4.0Personal autonomyTraditional normsFederalism
+8.0CentreStates
The record, axis by axis
Every placement is scored on what was said and done — manifestos, legislation, the governing record — and calibrated against the same trade-offs the quiz asks about.
300 free electricity units since July 2022 left most Punjab households with zero bills; over 1,090 Aam Aadmi Clinics by mid-2026; ₹1,000 a month for women and ₹1,500 for Scheduled Caste beneficiaries from the March 2026 budget
No nationalisation plank and a low-tax, free-provision, trader-facing model — but he backs a legal MSP guarantee and withdrew the 2025 Land Pooling Policy covering 24,311 acres after farmer protests
AAP has endorsed a caste census since 2023 and Punjab runs Scheduled Caste scholarships in the state with India's largest SC population share, without any quota-expansion programme of its own
No majoritarian programme in a Sikh-majority state, though the enacted sacrilege law protects the Guru Granth Sahib specifically rather than all faiths' scripture — set against AAP's parliamentary support for the Article 370 abrogation in 2019
Punjab Police cleared the Shambhu and Khanauri protest sites in March 2025 and detained over 1,250 farmers including Dallewal and Pandher; the 2023 Amritpal Singh operation ran under a statewide internet shutdown
The anti-sacrilege Act he pushed from July 2025 and got assent for in April 2026 carries life imprisonment and a fine up to ₹25 lakh for desecrating scripture — the harshest such law in the country
Calls Punjab the only state without its own capital, opposed the Centre's shelved November 2025 move to let the President legislate for Chandigarh, and accused the Centre of using the BBMB to take Punjab's water in May 2025
And where do you stand?
Answer the same trade-offs yourself and get your seven readings, on the scales you just read.
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